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18 - Lake Roosevelt South End to Spokane Confluence Report
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08/31/2018
41° - 45°
Trolling
Walleye
Worms
Red And Green
Sunny
Spinner
Morning
66° - 70°
09/02/2018
4
3158

I decided to beat the holiday jam at the Ft. Spokane boat launch. I took my buddy Jay out at first light and we headed upriver to Porcupine Bay. We trolled smile blades in 30-40 FOW at 1.1 mph; red, blue, and green were the best colors. We fished Blue Crick and the flat near the red barn. It was an OK day; we boated about 40 walleyes but only kept 13 between 16-20 inches to eat. The temp was 41 at launch and the water temp was 68. We definitely bundled up to stay warm at first but the day turned out to be beautiful. The wind picked up at about 1300 so we called it a day and headed to the cleaning station.


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CaptainDavesGS
9/3/2018 7:52:18 PM
Beautiful batch of fish.
afk
9/4/2018 6:51:45 AM
Good lookin' mess of eyes there!
Part-Time
9/4/2018 7:07:31 PM
I don't know what you do but you sure do it right, I was further up river past bouy 5 and didn't near as well as you. Seemed like the big blades that were lime green, yellow and orange were about the only ones we could make work. Is the "Red Barn" that building at the south end of Porcupine Bay? Well done!
CCTMark
9/5/2018 10:49:39 AM
Part-Time: That is the Red barn I was talking about. Also I fish up river near buoy 5 a lot so you have been in the right place but I can say that the troll bite up there was very slow last weekend. The jig bite was much better if you were near a weed bed that has deep water close by, lets say 25' would probably be a good guess for a depth to target.
Part-Time
9/11/2018 8:01:04 AM
Thanks, there was one boat just above 5 when we went by in my buddies 22 ft hardtop Hewescraft. Thanks for the tip, still consider my self a walleye rookie.
SnoKing
9/15/2018 3:12:04 PM
CCT Mark: I come to you (and others) hat in hand; obviously I'm a man with no more pride. I've been patiently hammering the water over on the Spokane Arm and up toward Hunter trying my best to recapture my walleye mojo. Two trips. The best I can do is a piddling few 12" 'eyes and a damned SUCKER that excreted some sort liquid on me....and I'm not going to throw out there what I think it was! Probably enough for me to say that he may have been quite excited just prior to chomping down on the hook.

My wife is now questioning all about me that is sacred including my abilities to bring in fish at Roosevelt. Hell, I'm not sure I can perform my marital obligations any longer...you guys know what I mean. Sad situation.

Anyway, I've finagled another trip to Roosevelt next week arriving on Monday and I have three days to produce. After studying the last posts, I've concluded that my best shot is up the Arm probably in Porcupine and maybe down as far was the graveyard. 30 to 40 FOW dragging a bottom bouncer with smile blades in green, blue, red and possibly some mixed colors. 1.1 to 1.5 mph. Probably locate the weed beds and see if I can skirt along the edges to draw then out.

Where am I going wrong here? Any suggestions other than take up sucker fishing?

Humbly Yours,
SnoKing
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